The objective of this paper is to analyse farm strategies and investment behaviour in a sample ofselected Italian farm-households facing different scenarios, with a particular focus on the effects ofthe 2003 CAP reform. Models were built for individual households using multi-criteria...

Investment models typically explain only a small share of the total investmentvariation within or between firms. A reason for this may be that those models do not explicitlydifferentiate between the decision to invest and the decision about the level of investment. Inthis paper, a two-steps...

Horticultural firms are dependent on energy to produce, while policy makers focus on reducingthe use of energy and investment in energy-saving technologies. The paper aimed to assesDutch greenhouse farmers‘ responses to policies that would affect prices of different energyinputs. The...